Traffic or NOT

Today the busy street outside our apartment has been closed for over an hour at a time due to the ASEAN Summit being held in the city. One photo shows the street normally, another shows the street without traffic. The third photo shows an interesting group of power pools near our house.

Basketball

Basketball is THE game here - hoops and courts are everywhere. I want to show two pictures. One of a hoop mounted on a tree way out in the bukid. The other is the court at the Lahug chapel in the city of Cebu with boys playing basketball in the rain.

Decenber 24, 25 2006

Christmas in Cebu was 'white' this year with baptisms. The first pictures shows Elders Domingo and Olsen, Harold, the Escanillo Family, and the five young priests who did the baptizing.

The second picture shows Gloria with Harold our English class student who was taught by Elders Domingo and Olsen and baptized on Christmas morning. Even before he was baptized Harold came to every possible Church activity and continues to do so. He was at the Church yesterday for a big cleaning project happily working with the other members.

The third picture shows me with Elders Santos and Amo in San Remegio with a family they had baptized on December 23.

The mission had a goal of 1000 baptisms for the year and exceeded that by 59. What a great blessing in the lives of so many people.